/lit/ - Literature

>open thread to have a gentlemanly and scholarly talk about the Enlightenment thinkers.
>half the thread is about a random french attention-seeking youtuber.

Maybe that is what the Lumières ideas turn into in real life: from Rousseau wondering about what an ideal social organization is to those youtubers trying to get viewers anyhow. After all, both are 'free citizens of a Republic'.

Maybe freedom is only useful in times of real social crisis, because if you are not under constraint it will most likely go to waste.

To end on a more positive note, have here an example of a neckbeard that has done something with his time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdWp7ocFgE